Assets

Assets Insights

With Asset Insights, unique to AEM, customers can gain immediate insights into how specific assets are performing and use that information to optimize their investments in creative that drives marketing campaigns. Asset Insights provides a unified view of the usage and performance of an asset across marketing campaigns, projects, and channels. In AEM 6.3, major enhancements have been done to make it easier to deploy, gather data and generate insights.

Assets Templates

AEM 6.3 introduces Asset Templates. Customers can now leverage self-service Asset templates based on Adobe InDesign to create and export brochures, flyers and print ads that speeds time to market while complying with brand guidelines and break digital and print silos with consistent messaging across channels leveraging AEM platform.

New asset check in and check out capability in web UI for improved collaboration.Consistent with desktop check in & check out

Enhanced Annotations capability with support for different colored annotations and offline reviews

Enhanced Review task with comparison view, annotation and commenting support

Desktop App

Desktop app now makes the access, check in, check out, and bulk upload of assets and complex folder structures seamless, especially when used with Creative Cloud apps. Users working with remote files, while simultaneously handling network data transfer operations in the background, will have a better local desktop experience.

File Support

AEM now uses Photoshop and Acrobat-quality image and PDF libraries to support high quality file operations such as conversion, previewing, raster and creating thumbnails and preserving color and embedded color profiles, using Adobe ICC profiles or your own. Deliver images with RGB, CMYK or grayscale so your digital assets look bright and beautiful across channels.

New 3D file format support. Repurpose 3D assets to accelerate time to market and save on production costs. Upload, manage, view, and render 3D content created from Creative Cloud or many popular 3D applications. Easily rotate, zoom, change colors, textures, backgrounds (stages) and lighting on 3D objects to create a new set of images from an infinite number of camera angles to use in digital marketing campaigns.

Scalability and Performance

AEM 6.3 takes major steps to empower your teams to work more productively and efficiently with a broad range of enhancements to support large scale operations including bulk ingestion, workflow processing, video processing and encoding, handling large files, repositories, and more.

Dynamic Media Add-on

Color Management

Ingested assets will retain their color space (RGB, CMYK, Gray) and embedded color profile. Dynamic image renditions can be generated to deliver color corrected images which represent the color as consistently as possible among different channels such as print vs. digital experiences. See Color Management.

Configuration & Setup Simplification

Dynamic Media replication agent has been simplified to consolidate required settings into single tab, remove inapplicable settings, and auto-populate server settings based on geo selection. Changes to keystore management UI for clarity of configuration. See Configuring Dynamic Media.

Components Enhancements

Dynamic Media and Interactive Media Sites components converted to Sightly and full Touch UI dialog. Support for entering free form viewer modifiers to append caption files, navigation for video, etc.

Custom Video Thumbnails

Choose from multiple different thumbnails auto-generated from the video or upload an image to use as the video thumbnail before playback begins. See About Video Thumbnails.

Dynamic Image Thumbnails

Image renditions used as thumbnails throughout AEM UI, are also now generated by Dynamic Media reducing overall asset processing load.

HTTPS Video Streaming

HTTP/2 Delivery

HTTP/2 is the updated web protocol that improves the way browsers and servers communicate, allowing for faster transfer of information while reducing the amount of processing power needed. Delivery of Dynamic Media assets can be over HTTP/2 which provides better response and load times. See Http2.

Image Memory Configuration

Set the overall memory limit on image processing in order to not use more memory than is available on the server. See Configuring dynamic media.

Improved Set Creation

Usability enhancements make it easier to create sets:

Asset selector provides multiple ways to find assets to include in a set - browse, conduct search query and select assets from different folders

Images are automatically sorted according to filename when added to the set, with ability to change sort in ascending/descending order

Instant preview of set in viewer with ability to switch different viewer styles

Non-Flash Adaptive Video Streaming on Desktop

Video on desktop is streamed using HLS (Apple's HTTP Live Streaming video delivery protocol) which provides the benefits of adaptive streaming but does not rely on the Flash plug-in for rendering video. See Best Practice: Using the HTML5 Viewer.

Process Monitoring

Real-time progress status for video encoding and Youtube publishing from all Asset views as well as from workflow admin. Process failures are provided from all Asset views as well as workflow admin, with detailed error messages. Optional email notifications can be sent when processes are completed or failed. See monitoring video encoding and YouTube publishing process.

Viewer Designer Enhancements

All viewers now support devices with both mouse and touch input for interacting with rich media (IE11/Edge)